Whoosh dies when including a space after a semicolon. about whoosh HOT 3 CLOSED

Original comment by Matt Chaput (Bitbucket: mchaput, GitHub: mchaput).

When using the default parser, because it's based on a formal pyparsing grammar, you need to catch exceptions when parsing user queries, because any deviation from the grammar understood by the parser will raise an exception.

Writing a more lenient parser is a project I hope to get to someday. The whoosh.qparser.SimpleParser}} and whoosh.qparser.DisMaxParserclasses are available, but don't allow access to most query features (like prefixes and specifying fields). Alternatively you could write your own parser to take a string and translate it into a tree ofwhoosh.query.*` objects.

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Original comment by Stavros Korokithakis (Bitbucket: Stavros, GitHub: Stavros).

Ah, it would be great if you could, this bug is very egregious in that it's easy for the user to crash the app...

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Original comment by Matt Chaput (Bitbucket: mchaput, GitHub: mchaput).

Fixed this in the repo. A colon at the end of a word is now parsed as part of the word. I'll try to make a new release this week, been too busy for weeks :(

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